Some are better than others mostly due to my physical and mental states changing during the year. Sometimes I was unable to paint what I had envisioned. Or my hands could not coordinate with my eyes, so what I painted didn’t look like the image I was using as a reference. I actually painted more than a hundred but some were torn up and tossed. Others were used to test colors.

Some of the earlier paintings are based on images from an old daily calendar that had around 300 images of artworks by various artists. A few were based on local photos like the hydrant and the pizza oven above.

There are a lot of cat paintings because I’m the cat lady of the family. Some plants, lots of wonky houses make up the rest. I started adding people toward the end. Maybe for the next paintings, I could do more people.

I haven’t decided what my next project will be. I was thinking larger paintings – maybe one a month. Or mixed media collages. I’ve given myself a week to figure it out. I may schedule a show at the makerspace for September. I do have a lot of watercolors and mixed media pieces I could display.